Featured Bakelite ? Locket Bracelet

See? I knew it was going.

 

Yay! Happy Sunday to you too
French jet is a nice name for... black glass used to mimick jet in jewellery (strangely not used for faux black onyx)

 

As usual, I'm doing/watching several things at same time
I think one of you had the opinion the decors and the locket part may be different on several pieces. (Not sure if I'm clear)
A jewellery firm made all components which were assembled afterward depending of the demand/fashion of certain themes in my opinion. Could have been the same oval locket part as a pendant with grape or bracelet with ivy or... and so on.

 

I'm seeing matte on the decorative bit & shiny elsewhere. Could be same material, different finishes, maybe. It just seems too different from the cuff itself to be the same, but could be same material as locket compartment.

 

Just for some entertainment, I found this site selling Victorian repros for reenactment
http://www.carterandjasper.com/womans3.htm

 

That is my theory, as well.

From what I can see, those are nicely done reproductions... and will some day get resold on ebay as the original items.

 

That's what I thought. You can't make nice reproductions without someone taking advantage.
Mind you, some people just don't know and can't be bothered to ask here.

 

Ok, I’m here now! Pesky work got in the way of the fun stuff.
I’ve studied it under a loupe and the band and the locket look to be exactly the same material. The decoration on the front looks moulded.

Inside the locket on the bottom part the surround again looks moulded or the decoration pressed in.

The centre of the bottom however looks carved.


The surround in the opening part of the locket


The centre of the opening part. Looks more like the decoration was pressed in than carved.

And as for the person who pressed that green goo into the decoration, I hope they end up in a really fiery place! ( not really but you know what I mean, they can end up with a nice job down there like looking after Cerberus).

 

Great close ups, K.

 

Does this help too?
Small area on the bottom of the inside of the locket that has melted. You can just see the bubbles.
Almost impossible to see how the inner locket has been slotted in and secured as the loupe won’t see round corners!

 

I will argue that "pressed" is a type of "molded," so none of that influences my thoughts.

I remain on the Vulcanite Train.

A totally unscientific study shows that within the Victorian era, UK and US newspapers used the word "Vulcanite" six times more often than "Ebonite."

Which means nothing, but it's the kind of thing I check.

 

I'm learning

 

I'm drifting towards it being vulcanite or another rubber derivative as under my warm mag light there was a faint whiff of rubber and after seeing those bubbles.
Would the cuff be able to be made of vulcanite that thin though?. Although it's visually very similar maybe it's not?
How unusual is this?. I can see pendants and the cuff INH found but I haven't found another locket on a cuff yet.

 

If you go to google images and search on "vulcanite cuff bracelet," you will see many similar, but in a quick pass, I only saw one other locket: https://twitter.com/hashtag/blackvictorianbeauty

 

Forgot to say, I have no problem with vulcanite as the material of the thin cuff.